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Faculty Members to Participate in International Multicultural Education Conference

May 9, 2011 — Three University of Wyoming educational studies faculty
members travel to Korea this month to share insights and expertise at the third
International Conference on Multicultural Education hosted by the KAME (Korean
Association for Multicultural Education).

UW's invitation to participate extends from Cho's ongoing
relationships with educational administrators and scholars in his native
country.

As Korea has moved from a 5,000-year-old monocultural,
agrarian society to an advanced nation with an increasing influx of workers
from other countries (two percent, about 1,000,000 workers), it has experienced
significant social and educational challenges. Children of cross-cultural
marriages (14 percent) enter schools facing many of the same kinds of obstacles
that immigrant children attending American schools experience. The
international conference on multicultural education emerged as part of a
national reflection on how to address these challenges effectively.

Rios will address the larger contextual issues in his
keynote, "Framing Multicultural Education for Citizenship in a Global Age:
Multicultural Education as a Human Right." Roxas will discuss the role of
identity and program support in his paper, "Creating Communities: Working with
Refugee Newcomer Students in the Classroom." Cho will introduce pedagogy
strategies in his talk, "Critical Performance Race Theory: Principles, Pedagogy
and Loving Community."

Photo:University of Wyoming educational studies faculty members
Jeasik Cho, Francisco Rios and Kevin Roxas will travel to Korea this month to
share insights and expertise at the third International Conference on
Multicultural Education hosted by the Korean Association for Multicultural
Education. (UW Photo)